Summary Nils Ebbesen

Kai Munk Nils Ebbesen Nils Ebbesen, leader of the Dutch peasants who rebelled against the Holstein rule (Holstein – the Russian name of the historic German province of Hollytein, adjacent to Denmark), died in

Summary of “Rudin” Turgenev

In the village house of Darya Mikhailovna Lasunskaya, a noble and wealthy landowner, a former beauty and a capital lioness who, far from civilization, still organizes her salon, awaits a baron, an erudite and

Summary Christoph Willibald Gluck. Orpheus

ORPHEUS Opera in three acts Libretto by R. Calzabigi and de Molina Characters: Orpheus Eurydice Amur Tenor (mezzo soprano) Soprano Soprano Shepherds, cowherds, furies, hellish spirits, blissful shadows. The plot is borrowed from the

Chekhov’s “Jumping” in a brief summary

Osip Ivanovich Dymov, titular counselor and doctor of thirty-one years, serves in two hospitals at the same time: an intern and a draftor. From nine o’clock in the morning until noon he takes the

Summary “Murder on the Morgue Street” by

Analytical abilities are not peculiar to every mind and are inaccessible to analysis. To this conclusion comes the Narrator, having met in Paris in the summer of 1818 with a certain Auguste Dupin, a

Summary From love of neighbor

Joyce Carey Out of love for one’s neighbor England, 1990 – 1920’s. The history of Chester Nimmo, a man who was only one step away from the post of prime minister of England, is

Summary “Children’s years of Bagrov’s grandson” Aksakov

The memo book describes the first 10 years of the child’s life, which he spent in Ufa and the villages in the Orenburg province. The narrator reproduced the perception of children, for which everything

Summary of Leucippus and Clitophon

Achilles Tatiye Leucippa and Clitophon In the Phoenician city of Sidon the author meets a young man who tells him an unusual story of his love. A native of Tire, the young man Clitophon

“Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe” Defoe in brief summary

Peace is not for Robinson, he hardly hangs out in England for several years: thoughts about the island are haunted him day and night. His wife’s age and sensible speeches keep him for the

“In more often” Akutagawa in brief summary

Novella is a different version of the same event, expressed by different people. The woodcutter told during the interrogation that he had found the corpse of a man in a grove under a mountain,
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